Hyderabad: After announcing plans to construct a new Haj House spread over 10 acres in Pahadi Shareef near Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), the government has now scrapped it after deeming the location unfeasible.
Sources from the minorities welfare department (MWD) said that the government is now scouting for better options closer to the city. The move comes after MWD officials realised that pilgrims would have to travel around 30 kilometres from the city to the proposed Haj House to make simple enquiries, sources added.
It was last year that the minister for minorities welfare, Mohammed Ahmadullah, declared that Rs 12 crore would be earmarked for the construction of the new Haj House, which would have ground-plus-one blocks spread across the land parcel. Elderly pilgrims would be housed on the ground floor and younger pilgrims on the first. The government had even sanctioned Rs 3 crore.
30/01/14 Times of India
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Sources from the minorities welfare department (MWD) said that the government is now scouting for better options closer to the city. The move comes after MWD officials realised that pilgrims would have to travel around 30 kilometres from the city to the proposed Haj House to make simple enquiries, sources added.
It was last year that the minister for minorities welfare, Mohammed Ahmadullah, declared that Rs 12 crore would be earmarked for the construction of the new Haj House, which would have ground-plus-one blocks spread across the land parcel. Elderly pilgrims would be housed on the ground floor and younger pilgrims on the first. The government had even sanctioned Rs 3 crore.
30/01/14 Times of India
